Çeteci Abdullah Pasha

Çeteci Abdullah Pasha
Monarch	Mustafa III (1757-1774)
Wali of Damascus
In office January 1758 – January 1760
Preceded by	Husayn Pasha ibn Makki
Succeeded by	Muhammad Pasha al-Shalik
Beylerbey of Diyarbekir
In office 1760–1760
In office 1752–1752
In office 1750–1750
In office 1740–1740
Wali of Erzurum
In office 1754–1756
Preceded by	Agha Mustafa Pasha
Succeeded by	Mustafa Pasha
In office 1751–1752
Preceded by	Yazicizâde Ibrahim Pasha
Succeeded by	Agha Mustafa Pasha
Wali of Aleppo
In office 1757–1757
Wali of Kütahya
In office 1753–1753
Wali of Van
In office 1747–1747
Beylerbey of Adana
In office 1746–1746
Beylerbey of Rakka
In office 1741–1745
Wali of Sivas
In office 1730–1739
Personal details
Born	1703 Çermik (Jarmak), Diyarbekir Eyalet
Died	1760 Damascus, Damascus Eyalet
Nationality	Ottoman
Religion	Islam

Çeteci Abdullah Pasha ibn Ibrahim al-Husayni al-Jarmaki (also known as Abdullah Pasha al-Jatahji) was an Ottoman statesman. He served terms as the governor of Sivas, Diyarbekir, Rakka, Adana, Van, Erzurum, Kütahya, Aleppo and Damascus. Çeteci was born in 1703 in the village of Çermik (also spelled Jarmak), hence his surname "al-Jarmaki".

Prior to his political career, Çeteci was a "distinguished field commander" according to . He fought in the Ottoman campaigns in the Caucasus in the 1720s and in the war against the Safavid Empire. During those campaigns he served as a levend başağasi (commander of a mercenary battalion). He was promoted to beylerbey of Sivas in 1739. He founded the Çeteci Abdullah Pasha Medresesi, an Islamic school in his hometown of Çermik in 1756-57.

Çeteci entered office in January 1758 after his predecessor Husayn Pasha ibn Makki failed to protect the Hajj caravan from a massive Bedouin raid. His first major action was suppressing a revolt by the Janissaries who had staged a revolt during Husayn Pasha's tenure. The revolt in the Midan district was put down, but Çeteci's troops engaged in mass killings and looting against rebellious neighborhoods. Several men, women and children were killed.

The economy in Damascus, already flailing, was severely damaged during the revolt's suppression since Midan was a major bread market for the city. Its bakeries closed as a result of the violence. The events in Midan coincided with bad grain harvest elsewhere in the province, resulting in the depletion of bread in bakeries throughout the city. According to a Damascene chronicler at the time, the empty bakeries were surrounded by "great crowds of men, women and children, from whom heart-breaking cries and wails were heard". Çeteci, wary of a repeat of the bread riots of 1757, dispatched troops to guard the bakeries.

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